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This past April Timothy spoke at a conference in Malawi to more than 700 leaders representing more than 200 denominations. At the end of the conference 250 leaders responded to Timothy’s mission challenge by praying for God to guide them to advance world evangelism from Malawi and to deepen their commitment to biblical preaching.

The following month these same leaders met to pray and strategize about how to achieve their newfound mission. They established a task force to determine how to mobilize their national movement and consulted frequently with Timothy by asking if he would come to “midwife the birth of their movement.”

Out of this group of leaders came 75 who formally challenged Leadership Ministries Worldwide to consider helping them develop a 2 or 3-year program to equip their leaders. A proposal is underway to conduct the first phase of training in April 2015 toward this miracle of God called the Malawi Mission Initiative.

Timothy is appealing to Leadership Ministries Worldwide’s donors, supporters and volunteers to pray and donate resources for the Malawi Mission Initiative. These Christian leaders in Malawi have seen the value of The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible^® and accompanying training that Timothy can provide. Timothy has responded to this divine appointment and now it is Leadership Ministries Worldwide’s opportunity to do the same.

Contact [email protected] to reach Timothy.

This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.  Moreover it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. — 1 Corinthians 4:12

Outlining the Bible helps prepare someone to teach the precepts of Scriptures systematically and in context. The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible^® is designed for the pastor, Bible study leader, or minister to help them examine a text and absorb the complete message of that text.

Outlining the Bible is an invaluable tool for sermon preparation, but it’s a time-consuming approach. Our team of authors has done that work for you, placing verse-by-verse outlines alongside Scripture and compiling in-depth research and commentary. Each passage of Scripture receives almost 200 hours of research work to complete the accompanying commentary.  No wonder each volume of The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible^® contains a year’s worth of sermon material!

Renowned evangelical Protestant scholar Dr. Donald A. Carson is widely credited with the statement that “a text without a context is a pretext for proof text.” This means that when someone interprets anything without examining the context in which it is written, one can easily (or even intentionally) misappropriate, misapply, or misrepresent a text to support a position that it in fact does not support. Outlining a passage is the first step to a thorough study discipline called “exegesis.”

Exegesis helps the student of God’s Word stay true to the original context and enables preachers and ministers of the Word to preach and apply it carefully.  When a thorough exegesis of scripture is done it prevents someone from adding their own prejudices and ideas into the mix and compromising what God is actually saying.  Outline Bible Resources are designed to help you ponder, examine, and expound on God’s Word – not to add in what is not there.

We are proud to announce the newest release of the NIV version of The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible^®: 1st & 2nd Samuel.  With more then 400 pages of notes and commentary, this volume includes both books of Samuel.  As with all NIV volumes of The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible^®, our editorial team spent hundreds of hours carefully reviewing the existing KJV outline and commentary for 1 & 2 Samuel, checking for accuracy and ensuring the outlines follow the NIV scripture translation.

This volume follows the same format and layout our pastors and teachers have come to expect including verse-by-verse outlines; fully developed and researched commentary; sermon points, life application & support scripture; and everything organized at your fingertips in the easy-to-read two-column format for quick reference within each lesson.

Visit OutlineBible.org to learn more and purchase your copy.

The Great Commission compels Christians to go into all the world and minister to all people.  When we consider missions, do we think about prisons as a mission field?  Throughout the Bible, we find many examples of outreach to prisoners.  The apostle Paul spent quite a bit of time in Roman prisons. Christ was crucified between two prisoners.  Psalm 69:33 makes it very clear that “the Lord hears the needy and does not despise His own people who are prisoners.”

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), there are more then 2.2 mission people currently imprisoned in the United States.  These are men and women created in the image of God, and they need to know and understand the truth of God’s Word.  Prisoners need Christ and must hear and understand His Word to set them free to a life with Christ as they serve behind bars. Prisoners need Bible-based resources and tools to transform and equip other prisoners to share the hope of the Gospel with fellow inmates.

For many years, LMW has sought to equip prisoners and prison chaplains with resources to help them deepen their faith and lead others to Christ.  We regularly recieve letters from prisoners and prison staff requesting The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® (POSB) and other Outline Bible Resources.  Among the most popular resources requested are the Believer’s Handbook and the four Gospel volumes of the POSB.  Requested materials are sent to prisoners on a first-come, first-serve basis as funds, materials, and manpower are available to fulfill them.  We regularly receive inspiring testimonies from prisoners whose lives have been transformed by God as they serve their sentences.  This excerpt from a recent letter from a prisoner in South Carolina say it all:

“I truly felt and experienced God’s love when I opened the mail. You have no idea what it means to receive a gift, letter, note, communication from a member of God’s body in the Church of Jesus. God’s Love just pours our from your gifts to me.  I in turn will use these books to pour out from the overflow of your generosity and love!

Please send me a cost list for other books.  I pray and ask God to bless me so I may buy Romans, Hebrews, and Ephesians, to begin my library.  I will buy the remaining Bible books as I am able.  Thank you again from my entire heart, soul, mind and body, for your blessing and gift.  The gift has propelled me forward.  Thank you for making a difference and impacting my life!”

Thanks to generous donations of time and money from our volunteers and supporters, we have had the privilege of sending hundreds of Outline Bible Resources to prisons across the country.

Please prayerfully consider supporting LMW as we minister to this important mission field and make a radical impact in the lives of prisoners across the nation.

Visit OutlineBible.org/give today to learn more.

Many of us have heard how POSB continues to impact preachers, teachers and lay leaders. Pastor Bob Patty of Bartlebaugh Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee can testify to its impact as he recalls members in his church telling him his sermons were powerful and full of passion. This Tennessee pastor’s ministry has been radically changed. Pastor Bob Patty will tell you his ministry changed when he started using POSB in his own church and that it helped fuel his passion to introduce it to Romanian pastors and lay leaders after a 2012 trip to Romania. During that trip Bob was introduced to Pastor Nelu Aliman, a founding member of the National Baptist Mission Board in Romania. The POSB has the potential to reach its full impact when the Romanian people have their own Bibles. Bob and Pastor Aliman shared a vision of distributing the Bible to 10,000 people in Romania, along with the Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® (POSB) for those who preach the Word.

Pastors Aliman and Patty’s vision ignited a passion to raise the money to translate and print POSB’s Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians editions in Romanian.

By the end of 2013 eight thousand Bibles had already been purchased and distributed. Their goal of 10,000 Bibles required a lot of prayer for money and other resources to provide Romanian translations of God’s Word. In 2013 the Lord opened the door when Bob met a Romanian Gideon and was able to purchase more than 1,600 Bibles and New Testaments. God’s blessing did not stop there as Bob was able to distribute the Bibles and New Testaments and see the joy of the Romanians who received the Word and be a part of many people accepting Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior.

In 2013 Bob also conducted a conference on the Book of Romans with the goal of presenting everyone in attendance with a Romanian translation of Romans in the POSB. Nearly 200 individuals, including pastors, ministers, evangelists and other church workers, attended
the conference on Romans. An added blessing of Bob’s trip was presenting a number of complimentary copies of the then released Romanian
Galatians-Colossians volume of the POSB to Nelu Aliman and Crinel Ignat, another pastor in Romania. During that trip, Bob was also able to preach and teach in nine different churches across Western Romania with even more people coming forward and accepting Christ into their lives.

Early in 2014 Bob Patty returned to Arad, Romania teaching and distributing the Galatians-Colossians volume of the POSB in Romanian to approximately 200 pastors and deacons at a day-long conference at Maranata Baptist Church–all received copies of POSB’s most recent volume.

LMW is grateful to Pastor Bob Patty for using POSB and following the leadership of the Holy Spirit and making two men’s vision a reality in the lives of hundreds of pastors and leaders in Romania. There is great power in the preaching and teaching of God’s Word especially when pastors can become confidently equipped for every good work using the POSB!

Steady progress is being made by LMW in the ongoing work to complete the book of Psalms. Many hours of prayer and reflection have been invested thus far to ensure the integrity of this work. It takes time. We know many of our faithful users are anxious to get the rest of Psalms. The work is comprehensive and time-consuming but necessary to ensure the next two parts of the POSB maintain the same high standards our faithful users have come to expect from us over the years. Psalms-Part 1 includes chapters 1-41. Psalms-Part 2 (Chapters 42-89) is scheduled to release in 2015 and Psalms-Part 3 (Chapters 90-150) is on schedule for 2016. Please continue to pray for our writers, researchers and editors as they work hard writing, researching, editing and proofing.